mark skinner

Hello again , I did some EQ work and some cut and paste on the beginning of a few of the the cello notes. I think I got back a good bit of the bow attacks. @Barry Seymour Thanks a lot for the comment , I was uploading the remix as you posted. I hope I made some improvement. Thanks .. mark

That was awe inspiring and Very relaxing. You just lowered my blood pressure. Thanks .. mark

That was hauntingly beautiful. Very immersive and stirring. You got some Great tones on the bowed instruments. The simple zooming in video worked Fantastic. I Really enjoyed listening to this one . Very Nice .. mark

@noynekker That's the first time I've been accused of being too smooth , but I Totally agree. I chopped up the tracks quite a bit moving notes and lost a lot of bow attack using fades. I baked them in bouncing to clips and got too far ahead to start undoing. Big lesson learned. Thank You . @garybrun The middle section I used some pretty big fade ins , and It Really sounded more like a volume pedal used on a pedal steel. I thought the same thing . I may try and go for that sound in the future. Thank you for evaluating and your time. @Wookiee I'm researching to grasp the concept of using formants. Thank You for your comments and opinion. I Really appreciate you guys and your help. Thanks .. mark

Here's the latest instrumental I'm trying to finish up , no more in my hold file so , I'm finally caught up. Any crits and suggestions are welcomed. I felt it was a little lacking so I added cello tracks and tried to make them sound like a violin . I played my cello then in melodyne I raised everything up an octave into the viola range. The violin range got weird sounding. I'm not sure about a Lot of things on this one so whatever jumps out at you please don't hold back. I usually play clean electric but it sure was fun doing the overdrive guitar near the end. I Really envy you lead players. I really hope I can learn to pull off this cello/violin thing because I sure canNot play a violin. Thank You .. mark https://soundcloud.com/user-810058643/elevator Link now reflects final remix.

Lynn , there a Lot to like here and too much to mention it all. Great guitar intro , I wanted to hear more of it. Great vocals as well. Enjoyed it .. mark

Jake , I listened on laptop with headphones. On monitors I'm sure there would be much better bleed over. With only a couple of instruments , I think hard panning (or near it) sounds less than ideal with headphones especially if the tracks are pretty dry. Just my opinion . mark

Yeah , I thought for sure it was an E piano. I guess I missed "harp" in the main thread title. Even more impressive now. I've never known a Real harp player. Maybe the EQ boost on the harp Wookie mentioned would help. She's a human metronome .. mark

Jake , I thought the acoustic guitar was Very well recorded. The song sure had a Floydish feel to me. Some reverb from each guitar feeding the opposite side of the spectrum would be nice . It felt too hard panned to me. Still nice .. mark

Very nice. I really liked the overall feel of the song and the main lead guitar melody. I do think the Yamaha could be boosted a DB or so and the lead dropped the same amount. Great song and Very nice performance. Enjoyed it .. mark

Eric , you've sure been on a roll lately . Another Great one. I thought the piano sounded Real nice. Great playing and mix. mark

I Loved the laidback held out vocals and especially the harmony when it hits the minors. This would be a great one with a haunting pedal steel in the breaks. Sounds Great ! mark

Michael , I Really liked the walking bass , it sounded Great. I did think the piano could be a little brighter and less quantized. Overall Very good composition . Enjoyed it .. mark

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@Jack Stoner I guess I'm the exception. I also have and old HP with the same problem. I can actually see it arc from a bundle of wires with the switch hanging out of the case. But .. in fact the switch was the very "Last" thing the tech looked at. They fed power directly (bypassing the switch) and it booted right up and stayed on. Thanks for the comments and the help. mark

The link now reflects a remix. I added notes and made some volume changes in the mix and master. I think it's much better now , Thanks for the direction. Let me know if I missed it. Thank You .. mark

Yeah , I guess when your computer keeps turning on and off , you should check the First thang that turns your computer on and off. yay. ms

Brad , back up all your Sonar projects from your XP machine. They'll open up in CbB. I took a Bunch of old projects from an XP tower running Home studio 7 . Some of the guys playing on these projects are no loner around.. mark

Picked up my pc yesterday. He said they almost gave up thinking it was a motherboard problem , then found an intermittent short in the power switch. I'm back in business. The only thing I lost was my CbB activation. I had changed my cmos battery while troubleshooting , my 6 month refresh was surpassed by several years until I realized I hadn't reset my date and time. Thanks .. good for now. mark

@Miguel Carzola @PhonoBrainer @Bajan Blue Thanks for the feedback and suggestion. I'm also feeling the bass is a little lacking listening closer after your comments. I didn't notice it at all beforehand . Thanks for pointing it out. I'll try and address it when my pc gets out of the shop. I'm down for the count right now. It has been nice though just sitting down and playing without recording. Later .. mark

Back to the same problem , even after moving everything to a spare bedroom for a while. PC is going to the doctor Monday. Turns out it's 5 yrs. old instead of the 2.5 I said earlier. Time sure flies. It looked pretty dry between the heat sink and CPU , couldn't find any paste today. I'll pass that along to the Doc. I'm growing weary .. ms

Steve , Very cool and nicely mixed. There were some Really interesting changes here. Were there a few bpm changes or an audio illusion of getting faster in places? Loved the video and ending of the song. I Always like your vocal cover songs , but now you're taking it to a new level. It sounds finished to me. Great job .. mark

@noynekker @steve@baselines.com "Thanks" for the comments and support. I Really had a good time doing this one , even the tedious TTS brush stuff. Seems like the guitar just fell into place , that's pretty unusual for me. I usually just play what I can and try and make a melody out of it , but this time I could hear it before playing. Thanks .. mark

That was Awesome ! Very soothing and perfect vocals. I'm amazed at how well the vocals cut thru such a nice full mix. Everything is clear and I could hear all of the tasty quieter keyboard passages. Perfect collaboration . mark

I'm usually a couple of songs ahead of what I post , so I thought I'd post this instrumental before finishing up the current one I'm on I was playing around with some free midi instruments and came up with this. The cool and different thing for me was how I did the tablas. Just mouse clicking in piano roll listening to the different sounds , for some reason I turned on the built in CbB arpeggiator. I found I could drag some of the drum hits out several measures and some very short hits and come up with some interesting stuff. I put in some draw bar organ sections and built the tabla track Very quickly. Easy to manipulate in PRV "until" you do a bounce to clips. Then the screen becomes a confusing mess. I think this would work better with better VSTI percussion instruments. Anyway I hope you enjoy it . All suggestions are welcomed , I think I'm going to keep it. mark Link now reflects a remix with bass improvements. Thanks for the listen and help. mark